Kinds of Literacy

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There are many kinds of literacy. Reading, Writing, and Numeracy are common examples.
Here are 26 kinds of literacy I found digging around on the net.
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Notes:
  1. The numbers are the number of hits I got for each term in Google.
  2. Most of my searches were on 7/25/2002.
  3. ~ stands for 'literacy'.
Conclusions:
  1. There are about thirty recognized kinds of literacy.
  2. About two thirds of the time literacy is mentioned it means reading / writing.
  3. Basic, Computer, and Information Literacy and Numeracy are discussed the most.
  4. Philosophical and Medical Literacy are discussed the least.
  5. The concept of ICT means that many of these literacies overlap. ICT stands for Information, Computer, and Technology literacy
  6. All of these kinds of literacy are important.
  7. It seems that...
  • Seven of them are 'new' kinds of literacy: Digital, Information, Musical, Orality, Technological, Computer, and Visual.
  • Five of them are Textual literacy based: (L)
  • Five of them are for practical living (P)
  • Seven of them are subject based (S)
  • Two of them are based on modern political correctness (C)
-- JonGrover